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Up until Hamas attacked Israel, Palestine relied on Israel to collect taxes. Collecting taxes is the bmost basic government function there is. Hamas had twenty

Up until Hamas attacked Israel, Palestine relied on Israel to collect taxes. Collecting taxes is the bmost basic government function there is. Hamas had twenty years to become a government. It was uninterested in doing so. Israel is not the genocidal agent here.

Gunnerhead 3y ago
Israel didn’t collect taxes out of the goodness of their hearts. They’ve collected them due to the Oslo Agreement, giving Israel the power to collect the taxes. This allows Israel to control the tap and punish the Palestinians whenever they see fit, as they’ve done over and over again for years.
salah7252 3y ago
This line of logic is so low level, why did a non-governmental party..not build a government..in a walled off open air camp...where an occupier controls what goes in or out & has destroyed things like seaports & airports. VERY low level.
- YZF 3y ago
  Your argument isn't very strong either. Gaza wasn't walled off forever. The walls were built in response to attacks from Gaza into Israel. No attacks and there'd be no wall. Israel didn't occupy Gaza so how is an "occupier" controlling everything? What about Egypt? If Israel controlled everything then how did lathes for making rockets, trucks, machine guns, RPGs, grenades, assault rifles, mines, get to Gaza? Your "open air camp" is my "Singapore". It was up to the Gazans to decide what to do on this piece of land they were given control over. Even if they aspire to have the entire of Mandatory Palestine they could have chosen not to do this using violence. Israel didn't destroy airports or seaports. Gaza never had a deep seeport, the water is shallow, and the fishing ports exist. Israel does have a naval blockage on Gaza so that Hamas couldn't get tanks and artillery and more weaponry in to attack it with, a fairly reasonable position. Similarly Israel will not allow airplanes to fly in either, for the same reasons. I'm not following on "non-governmental party", didn't Hamas win the elections and rule Gaza as its government?
  - wahnfrieden 3y ago
    israel did destroy gaza's airport.
skissane 3y ago
> Up until Hamas attacked Israel, Palestine relied on Israel to collect taxes. Collecting taxes is the bmost basic government function there is. > Hamas had twenty years to become a government. It was uninterested in doing so. This isn't true. Hamas taxes the inhabitants of Gaza [0]. Israel collects taxes on imports and exports from Gaza, and income tax on the pay of Gaza residents who were employed inside Israel. But transactions which occur entirely inside Gaza are not taxed by Israel, only by Hamas. [0] see e.g. https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2024/01/23/hamas-funding-how/ https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2024/01/23/hamas-fundin...

Gunnerhead 3y ago

Israel didn’t collect taxes out of the goodness of their hearts. They’ve collected them due to the Oslo Agreement, giving Israel the power to collect the taxes. This allows Israel to control the tap and punish the Palestinians whenever they see fit, as they’ve done over and over again for years.

salah7252 3y ago

This line of logic is so low level, why did a non-governmental party..not build a government..in a walled off open air camp...where an occupier controls what goes in or out & has destroyed things like seaports & airports. VERY low level.

YZF 3y ago
Your argument isn't very strong either. Gaza wasn't walled off forever. The walls were built in response to attacks from Gaza into Israel. No attacks and there'd be no wall. Israel didn't occupy Gaza so how is an "occupier" controlling everything? What about Egypt? If Israel controlled everything then how did lathes for making rockets, trucks, machine guns, RPGs, grenades, assault rifles, mines, get to Gaza? Your "open air camp" is my "Singapore". It was up to the Gazans to decide what to do on this piece of land they were given control over. Even if they aspire to have the entire of Mandatory Palestine they could have chosen not to do this using violence. Israel didn't destroy airports or seaports. Gaza never had a deep seeport, the water is shallow, and the fishing ports exist. Israel does have a naval blockage on Gaza so that Hamas couldn't get tanks and artillery and more weaponry in to attack it with, a fairly reasonable position. Similarly Israel will not allow airplanes to fly in either, for the same reasons. I'm not following on "non-governmental party", didn't Hamas win the elections and rule Gaza as its government?
- wahnfrieden 3y ago
  israel did destroy gaza's airport.

skissane 3y ago

> Up until Hamas attacked Israel, Palestine relied on Israel to collect taxes. Collecting taxes is the bmost basic government function there is. > Hamas had twenty years to become a government. It was uninterested in doing so. This isn't true. Hamas taxes the inhabitants of Gaza [0]. Israel collects taxes on imports and exports from Gaza, and income tax on the pay of Gaza residents who were employed inside Israel. But transactions which occur entirely inside Gaza are not taxed by Israel, only by Hamas. [0] see e.g. https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2024/01/23/hamas-funding-how/ https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2024/01/23/hamas-fundin...